RETRO-AORTIC LEFT RENAL VEINS

Retro-Aortic Left Renal Vein

An Anomalous Single Azygos-Hemiazygos Vein Associated with Retro-Aortic Left Renal and Accessory Renal Veins *

Anomalies of the venous system are known to be varied and frequent and, therefore, are often taken for granted. Perhaps for that reason we have been unable to discover in the literature an adequate description of a single midline vein receiving the drainage usually cared for by the azygos and hemiazygos systems. The condition has been observed previously, for in Piersol's Human Anatomy (1936, p...

Retro-aortic, left inferior renal capsular vein.

In our case report, abdominal multi-detector computed tomography was used for the pre-operative anatomy evaluation in a living kidney donor. The early phase of the test revealed normal kidneys in the donor. The vascular phase detected a venous variant on the left side: An inferior renal capsular vein, which had a loop and a retro-aortic course. This preoperative knowledge was crucial for the la...

The double retro-aortic left renal vein

The renal veins drain the kidney into the inferior vena cava and unite in a variable fashion to form the renal vein. The left renal vein is normally located in front of the aorta. However, the retro-aortic renal vein may course posterior to the aorta due to embryological developmental anomalies. During educational dissection, a rare variation of the left renal vein was found in a 66-year old ma...

Oblique Retro-Aortic Left Renal Vein and its Clinical Importance.

Kidneys are the organs that remove the waste products of the metabolic activities. A smooth blood flow to the kidneys is essential to maintain their function. Abnormalities of the renal vasculature may result not only in impairing the renal function but can lead to conditions like varicocele. During an autopsy of an adult male, we observed renal vascular variations. The left renal vein had a re...